Trade ministers from the European Union and the United States met on Wednesday 14 November, looking to take stock of working group discussions on trade and chart a shared path ahead. The high-level discussions are among a series of events this week expected to address international cooperation and...

The US held its midterm elections on Tuesday 6 November, with Democrats taking control of the House of Representatives and Republicans retaining their majority in the Senate, setting up a divided legislature that could have significant implications for Washington trade policy for the coming two...

Migration policies interact with trade through different and complex channels. Large-scale deportations of Central American nationals from the US, and considering only the remittances and trade channels, will affect adversely Central American countries’ GDP, fiscal accounts, and poverty levels...

Three months after US and EU leaders agreed to launch an “Executive Working Group” to tackle a series of trade issues, questions over how future talks will proceed and what those efforts will cover substantively remain, with trade officials offering differing public assessments in recent weeks...

High-level officials from the EU and US gathered last week in Brussels, Belgium, to evaluate the health and efficacy of their bilateral Privacy Shield, a trans-Atlantic accord that sets rules governing personal data flows and privacy protections. The meeting, helmed by US Secretary of Commerce...

In late September, an interagency US committee issued a report via the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) that deemed that while Peru has made valuable headway in its forest management efforts, more work remains in ensuring the legality of its timber supply chain can be...

Trade has been a high-profile topic both at this week’s UN General Assembly (UNGA), featuring during leaders’ speeches and at meetings in the margins, as officials lay out their visions on trade and multilateralism while also working to advance different negotiating processes at the political level...

US President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe issued a joint statement from New York on Wednesday 26 September where they announced plans to start formal negotiations for a bilateral trade accord. The news came just days after trade negotiators from both sides met on the margins...

US President Donald Trump announced this week that an additional list of Chinese products will face tariffs, starting 24 September, with the affected goods worth an estimated US$200 billion.The news has reignited trade tensions with Beijing, with the Asian economy’s government confirming that they...

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and US President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday 25 July that they had agreed to take a series of steps in the short and medium-term to ratchet down trade tensions between them, and plan to avoid introducing new unilateral tariffs as they...